CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) -- The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is proposing a third state prison near Cumberland.
The Cumberland Times-News reported Monday that Secretary Gregg Hershberger outlined the $15 million project in an email to local state legislators.
Hershberger says the 140-bed, minimum-security facility would be built between North Branch Correctional Institution and Western Correctional Institution in Crespatown, south of Cumberland. Each of those maximum-security prisons houses more than 1,300 inmates.
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This is what you get with entitlements, and handouts... high crime and the need for more public funded hotels.... errrr, prisons.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they can drop off all Obamas thugs there instead of slumsbury.
ReplyDeleteKeep them in the mountains.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why they always want to build the prisons in conservative areas. Most of the criminals come from liberal areas.
ReplyDeleteTo 6:45 It is not a good idea to build prisons in the same area (Balt. for example) where most of the thugs are also from.
ReplyDeleteMost likely they went to school together or are related and are more tempted to look the other way or bring in cell phones, drugs and so on. Toby is the convict and Tyrone the officer is his 'cousin.' Favors will get done when family is concerned.
Prison is a profitable business
ReplyDeleteThe government pays very well
$107,142.85 per bed! Perhaps if the cost per bed were maybe $7,142.85 we wouldn't have so many folks entering these facilities. Cinder blocks and steel bars with a little razor wire is plenty to contain the inmates. The good Governor has to have his cut no doubt.
ReplyDeleteWith that amount being spent I have to ask, are the guards there to keep inmates in or to keep the homeless out?